Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.

                                  
                                    NOW haf we bulle certeyn, a newe pape Benet, [Absoluti sunt per Benedic|tum papām.] 
                                  
                                    þat calles þer ageyn, þat Boniface set,
                                  
                                    Assoyles alle bi name, þo robbours þorgh grace,
                                  
                                    þat did despite & schame to pape Boniface.
                                  
                                    Who may now in Rome haf any sikernesse,
                                  
                                    þat þer is hiest dome, & ȝit vncerteyn es?
                                  
                                    þat Boniface bond with sentence so brim,
                                  
                                    Eft men Benet fond, þat he assoiled him,
                                  
                                    ¶  [Molt est sotz & fous, en Rome qe ceo fist, Pur quant posse dare, a graunt & a petit, Par fare & par defare, Rome nus derist, Ho la de choses par de ca dalyer nous suffist, in the French Copy that be|longs to the Heralds Office, but in Mr. Anstis's, Mult est fort & fous en Rome qe ceo fit, Pro quante posse dare, a grant & a petit, Bo la de chose par de cea dalier nous fit.] He is folc þat affies in þe courte of Rome, [Nota bene.] 
                                  
                                    Comes a noþer & bies, & fordos þat dome.
                                  
                                    Pur quante posse dare, what þing & how mykelle,
                                  
                                    Pur fare & defare, Rome is now fulle fikelle.
                                  
                                    Turne we now oþer weys vnto our owen geste,
                                  
                                    & speke of þe Waleys, þat lies in þe foreste.
                                  
                                    In þe forest he lendes of Dounfermelyn, [De Willel|mo Waleys.] 
                                  
                                    He praied alle his frendes, & oþer of his kyn,
                                  
                                    After þat ȝole þei wilde biseke Edward,
                                  
                                    þat he mot him ȝelde tille him in a forward
                                  
                                    þat were honorable to kepe wod or beste,
                                  
                                    & with his scrite fulle stable, & seled at þe lest,
                                  
                                    To him & alle hise to haf in heritage,
                                  
                                    & non oþer wise, als terme, tyme & stage,

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Title: Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.
Author: Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
Canvas: Page 324
Publication: [Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,; 1810]
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman; Scrooby, Eng.; Stonehenge (England); Glastonbury Abbey.

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